Dungeon Master |Collective Nouns

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:32 pm

While writing a small snippet of my Conflux 2 Quest of Legend, I called a group of antmen a "horde". But it doesn't sound right.

I wonder what a group of antmen should really be known as? Come to that, what would the collective nouns be for all the dungeon denizens? Let's base this on DM and CSB -- ignore Conflux 2's new names for now. And they have to be kind of new, or variations of exisiting nouns.

Here's a couple for starters:

A thicket of screamers
A tribe of trolin

andyboy_uk · Post by **andyboy_uk** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:14 pm

What is a group of ant's called. Is it a farm.

That sounds a bit naff as well though.

http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?r=2&q=horde

Maybe that will help.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:30 pm

antmen: a clan, a clique (click, geddit), a club

worms: a confusion (RTC), a slithering, a can

gigglers: a gaggle, a nusiance,a plague

mummies: a groan, a dryness, a dust

ghosts: a haunting

wasps: an infestation

skeletons: a creaking, a clattering, a smile, a calceration (whatever the finished state of soemhtign becoming calcareous is)

rats: a pain, a plague

couatyls: a flap, a procession

munchers: a denture

knights: a terror, a flurry (think how many hits do you get from them!), a clanque (clank)

golems: a wall

help me, i don't want to go back to work from lunch!

andyboy_uk · Post by **andyboy_uk** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:37 pm

"I dont want to go back to work from lunch"

Say whatever you ate made you ill and go home.

Nice work BeoWuuf

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:47 pm

Yup...if i can leave by 3 i can see LOTR:ROTK!
I have a feeling i might just work instead though

Eventually

Maybe

rock monsters: a blockage, an avalanche, an obstruction

slime: a flubber, a congealing, a crust

wizards eye: a beauty, a stare, a gaze, a float

vexirks: a jabber, a posse

scorpions: ARGH! RUN!

black flames: a fire, an inferno

water elementals: what else - a flood

oitus: a screech, a scuttling

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:21 pm

I thought this would appeal to you fuzzface! I love the scorpion and the swamp slime: a flubber of swamp slime!

A jabber of vexirks -- he he.

These are all very cool! But be thankful you're in work -- unemployment isn 't all it's cracked up to be (though it's giving me some time to play Conflux 2 which is cool....)

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:39 pm

yes, good luck with the searches, you have the cool website to back you up at least : )
that is the final one, right? cause it looks good

oh, and i forgot my favourite - a sussuration...worms or scorpions, anything that makes a nice whispering noise as it walks..or maybe for the ghosts...

zoooom/sigi · Post by **zoooom/sigi** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:06 pm

legion the things you only see in the csb intro carrying the flag and snoring...
cohort thorax antmen skels
trunk branch screamers
chuuuu mummies
quarrel query stone heap
wing quetza couatl
insubstantial mass
silent service ghosts shapechanger
obstacle scorpions
band of running-contest-competitors gigglers
chaos private pets pain rats
chaos´ jesters gigglers
waves tides water elemental
swarm fleet stinger wasps
bog poison ball throwers

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:20 pm

i like thorax, cohort, quetza and bog the best : )

gobleteer · Post by **gobleteer** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:24 pm

Antmen - maybe a hive? What are antmen?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:11 pm

bees have hives, whcih is why they need all that ointment
ants have farms, and produce the bees oitment for a reasonable price
i fell asleep through the rest of primary school, and the next thing i knew we were learnign calculus, so i missed one or two minor details about the rest

and antmen are the blue meanies in csb

Relig · Post by **Relig** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:04 am

Here's a little thing that you might find interesting

Monster: The ancient Romans believed the birth of a deformed
animal was an omen of bad things to come. The word “monster” comes
from monstrum, the Latin word for “warning.”

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:08 am

usually it's a warning that you are going to lose some health.